Release Year: 1993 Rating: R Duration: 129 minutes Director: Philip Kaufman
synopsis
At a celebration over the completed joint venture between a Japanese company and a US defence contractor a young woman is found strangled. A retired foreign liaison with expertise on Japanese culture is called in to help the current liaison overcome resistance from the Japanese, who are actively trying to mislead the investigation. As the liaisons get closer to the truth, political pressure is applied to get them off the case, and they must race against time to resolve it.
cast
Sean Connery as Capt. John Connor
quote
Jeff: Hey, you two should know, I'm a black belt.
John Connor: But of course you are.
a night of mystery and drifting fog on the bayou. strange things happen on a night such as this. midi is..house of the rising sun. Source: Ezthemes Size: (1100 Kb)
From the land of the rising sun comes Sumeba Miyako2 the Japanese warmth and hospitality theme. It is here in these traditional and warm surroundings that the Japanese saying where you live, you will come to love it takes on special meaning. High quality animated cursors and high quality MP3 stereo sound files are also part of this lovely theme. Also included a matching screensaver showning some Japanese art. Source: Ezthemes Size: (3991 Kb)
A party slogan from Orwell's 1984 said "who controls the past controls the future and who controls the present controls the past." RISING SUN is a high-gloss technological murder mystery that, as everybody already knows, is about xenophobia, xenophilia, and Japanese-American relations, but what is getting less attention is that it is also about how electronic and computing technology is changing what we think of as reality. As portrayed in the film, the Japanese are masters at the electronic manipulation of reality--an art that gives them an immoral advantage over their American counterparts. This, by the way, is an interesting reversal of the 17th Century Japanese policy to suppress the Western technological advance of the gun which gave its wielder what was considered by the Japanese an immoral advantage over a swordsman. Times have changed and tables have turned.
